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Sean Leatherbury, Stephen Welsh

Sean Villareal Leatherbury and Stephen Solomon Welsh were married Saturday at the Boathouse in Prospect Park, in Brooklyn. Michael S. Kaufman, a Universal Life minister, officiated.

In September, Mr. Leatherbury (left), 29, is to become a postdoctoral fellow in art history at the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan, where he will conduct research on Byzantine art. He graduated from Yale and received a Ph.D. in history from Oxford.

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He is a son of Patricia J. Villareal and Thomas S. Leatherbury of Dallas. His mother is the partner-in-charge in the Dallas office of the Cleveland law firm Jones Day. His father is a partner in the Dallas office of the Houston law firm Vinson & Elkins.

Mr. Welsh, 37, helps foreign-language faculty members at Columbia University integrate new media into their curriculums, and is studying at Teachers College for a Ph.D. in communications, computing and technology in education. He graduated from the University of Miami in Florida, and is a jazz saxophonist who performed most recently in May at S.O.B.’s and in April at Joe’s Pub.

He is the son of Suzanne M. Welsh and Stephen E. Welsh of Stafford Township, N.J. His mother retired as an accounting manager at Medicenter, a residential nursing and rehabilitation center in Neptune City, N.J. His father, a retired mason, was a member of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers.

A version of this article appears in print on July 7, 2013, on Page ST12 of the New York edition with the headline: Sean Leatherbury, Stephen Welsh. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe